Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Minister might clarify the following. He said that Ó Cualann delivered affordable purchase homes in 2021. How many of those were occupied in 2021? As the Minister knows, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, home ownership among adults of prime working age has collapsed since 2012. House prices grew by a staggering 77% up to 2020, while during the same period wages only grew by 23%. The Parliamentary Budget Office says that on an international scale, housing affordability in Ireland is rated as severely unaffordable. People struggling to pay unaffordable rents and struggling to buy a home want to know what the Government is doing to make housing affordable. In the 2020 general election, the Minister promised 10,000 affordable homes each year. In the two years since then, the Government has not delivered in terms of affordable purchase homes. How many affordable purchase homes were occupied last year?

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